To obstruct something to put a spanner in the works. I haven't drunk it for four years, following a nasty vomiting incident. While traditionally the word refers to strong home-brewed cider ("scrumping" being stealing apples), it has more recently become associated with a high-alcohol brand named Scrumpy Jack. It's a fairly childlike way of describing something as delicious ("This jelly and ice-cream is scrummy!"). I believe that this is an amalgamation of "yummy" and "scrumptious". I'm told it's an abreviation of "scrotum". The people Brits refer to as scrotes are pretty much the same as those Americans call "scum". Someone generally about as low in one's esteem as a person could be. While Americans have junkyards and put junk on junk-heaps, we have scrapyards and scrap-heaps, upon which we put scrap. Very similar to the American word "junk", which we don't use as much. If we were Scotch people, we would be made primarily from whisky. So we aren't Scotch people we are Scottish people. ![]() Scotch is a contraction of the word "Scottish" but is now only used in the context of foodstuffs, and whisky - we refer to anything else as being "Scottish". The closest US equivalent is biscuit, though I am reliably informed that the scone itself is creeping into the US via coffee shops. A quintessentially British foodstuff, scones are somewhere between a cake and a subsistence food. It is derived from the German adjective "stumm", meaning being either unable or unwilling to speak. Only really used in the context "keep schtum", this means "keep your mouth shut" in the UK. In the UK, school only applies to junior and senior schools (what Americans call "high school"), and never to universities. I'm told that it is derived from the Cockney rhyming slang "Scappa Flow / go". ![]() ![]() You'd see it in a context something like "I saw some kids out the window writing all over my car in spray paint but by the time I got there they'd scarpered". To run away, usually from the scene of some sort of unpleasant incident in which you were a part. you won't find a lightly toasted roast beef sarnie being servered on a fresh bed of rocket in your average poncy restaurant. Quite simply an abbreviation for "sandwich". As you might guess, to describe something as "samey" means that it's pretty similar to a lot of other things. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
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